ITV1 is launching a Sunday night documentary strand called Perspectives and dramas by Peter Morgan, Anthony Horowitz and Sally Wainwright.

Perspectives will begin in 2011 with five films by leading film-makers such as Brian Hill and Antony Thomas.

The new documentary strand will also feature Andrew Lloyd Webber on Pre-Raphaelite art, while Robson Green, directed by the Oscar-winning Jon Blair, will explore the story of the Pitmen Painters.

It has not yet been revealed if Perspectives will air in The South Bank Show's old slot.

Horovitz, the creator of Foyle's War, has written Injustice, which will star James Purefoy as William Travers, a criminal barrister who is recovering from a traumatic series of events. Wainwright – whose credits include At Home with the Braithwaites – has written a police drama, Scott and Bailey, starring Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp.

From Morgan, writer of Frost/Nixon and The Damned Utd, there is The Jury, a drama about people who find themselves at the centre of a retrial.

Speaking at his MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival controller session yesterday, Peter Fincham, ITV director of television, channels and online, said of the row over using Auto-Tune technology on The X Factor that he had "not issued instructions to the producers". He added that he thought producers would "deliver a show that faithfully represents" the contestants.

When asked about BBC director general Mark Thompson's idea of Sky paying retransmission fees to carry ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, Fincham said: "We're not going to complain if they do. I don't know ... it's a fresh idea."

He said he would have to see if Thompson's prediction that many ideas floated in MacTaggart lectures disappear by the following Tuesday: "We'll have to see whether the proposals take root and gain direction."

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